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1889, Paris and the Universal Exposition by Michael A. Gotwalt

1889, Paris and the Universal Exposition by Michael A. Gotwalt

Paris was the center of the world in 1889. From art to architecture to engineering to imagination, Paris set the standard for the soon to come 20th century. Into this scene comes photographer Eustace Wyatt, photojournalist for eccentric publisher James Gordon-Bennett Jr. After a stopover in London to photograph the murder ground of the still unsolved ripper murders, and by happenstance meet his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, Wyatt proceeds to Paris and takes up residence in Montmartre. The Universal Exposition is soon to open with Eiffel’s Tower the centerpiece. Come along with Wyatt and his writing partner, Lloyd Kane, as they experience La Belle Epoque. Along the way they befriend the likes of Toulouse Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Eiffel, Nikola Tesla, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and others. They discover that behind the scenes, Europe is in turmoil both on the continent and with possessions in Africa and the Levant. Excitement and espionage soon become part of their daily routine. At the center of this is the Universal Exposition, arguably one of the greatest of fairs. All of Europe is there and the exposition provides an exciting locale for mystery, intrigue and murder.

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Phoenix Rising by Mark T. Wellington

Phoenix Rising by Mark T. Wellington

Unveiling the latest sensation in the world of Short Form Novels: Phoenix Rising by Mark T. Wellington!

This high-octane, adrenaline-pumping thriller will transport you to the year 2035, where mind-controlled space-age drones reign supreme, and one man’s quest to save the world takes an intensely personal turn.

Immerse yourself in the gripping story of Tony Simmons, a fearless Air Force major with the extraordinary ability to control three of the most powerful drones ever created – the Devastators. When his family is kidnapped, and he finds himself betrayed and hunted, Tony is forced to push his powers to the limit in a desperate race against time.

Phoenix Rising is the perfect embodiment of the Short Form Novel, delivering a relentless, fast-paced narrative that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Mark T. Wellington masterfully weaves a tale of suspense, intrigue, and heart-stopping action, combining futuristic technology and geopolitical complexities with raw, human emotions.

In this compact literary masterpiece, every page is packed with tension, danger, and unexpected twists, as Tony navigates the treacherous world of betrayal, espionage, and simmering romantic tension with his colleague, Adrianne. As the line between reality and fabrication blurs, Tony must unravel the shocking truth behind the conspiracy that threatens his life and the safety of his family.

Phoenix Rising offers a thrilling, high-stakes adventure that showcases the best of the Short Form Novel format. Its intense, fast-moving story and engaging characters will captivate you from the very first page, leaving you breathless and craving more.

Don’t miss out on this exhilarating new addition to the Short Form Novel revolution! Grab your copy of Phoenix Rising today and join Tony Simmons as he battles insurmountable odds to save his family and uncover the sinister truth that lies beneath the surface. Are you ready for the ride of your life?

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The Ryzhkov Vendetta by Barry L. Becker

About The Ryzhkov Vendetta by Barry L. Becker:

The Ryzhkov Vendetta: Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East, supplying a Saudi terrorist with four Russian nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two US cities to target.
A CIA operation thwarts the planned attack and kills many Russian intelligence operatives, including his brother Sergei. The oligarch is out for revenge.
Ryzhkov approaches a former CIA station chief and offers him money in exchange for the CIA operatives’ names. Armed with this intelligence, he launched his vendetta, targeting for assassination, Mark Ericksen, now CEO of EyeD4 Systems, his fiancé’ Kate McDonald, a banking consultant, and Lars Wahlberg, COO of EyeD4 Systems.
Can Ericksen and his former operatives avoid the assassins’ poisoning efforts and turn around the deadly game of hunter and prey?

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Spider Wars

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Gonzalo Gonzales clones prehistoric mega-spiders in the Colombian Amazon to turn dangerous venom into medicinal serum to save lives. A meter wide, they’re history’s largest spiders. When a drug lord steals his family, Gonzalo takes his giant, venomous spiders to save them, if it’s the last thing he does.

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The Mazatlan Showdown

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Champion surfer Jeff Walker’s father was murdered before he was born. What’s worse, his mother died of a broken heart after clinging to life to raise him by herself. Desperate to confront the crook, Walker moves to the U.S. and finds work on the beach in sunny San Diego. Then, when he sees a shooting on a yacht and swims out to the rescue, he unwittingly steps into the sticky web of a smuggling ring.

Along with a rich cast of characters, Walker assists the police in the investigation, but the case turns personal when the master smuggler is revealed to be the killer Walker’s been looking for his entire life!

This is the first novel in The Park and Walker Action Thriller Series. If you like muscle cars, brawny bikes, explosive action, compelling prose, and spectacular oceanfront settings, then look no further. This is your kind of book. Only $.99 from June 18-25, 2023 in the ebook version.

**Semi-finalist in the 2023 Adventure Writers Competition sponsored by the Clive Cussler family. Stay tuned to see if it reaches the finals or wins!

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When Justice Calls by SJ Zeller

When Justice Calls by SJ Zeller

If you like stories by CJ Box, CJ Petit, and John Deacon, then When Justice Calls is for you.

Federal Marshal JP McAllister is recalled to Sagebrush, Montana—without delay. He survives an ambush, only to learn he’s being sent after his longtime friend, Jarvis Tate. Wanted for murder, JP soon discovers some reunions are bittersweet. Tate gets the jump on McAllister, badly wounding his deputy sheriff. Can JP save the deputy’s life and bring Tate to justice?

When Justice Calls is the first book in the Stars and Badges Saga.

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The eBook will be free to purchase June 6-7, 2023, on Amazon.
It’s FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

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Argument Hacks: Tips on How to Communicate with your Partner Effectively During a Fight by Gracie O’Devin

Argument Hacks: Tips on How to Communicate with your Partner Effectively During a Fight by Gracie O'Devin

No two people are alike enough that they never have a disagreement. So why not learn how to make arguing something that you are good at? Why not become so good at arguing that it feels productive? Argument Hacks is a simple guide that will teach you how to have a good, healthy argument. It is a real thing and the hope is that you and your partner can keep fighting without making it a painful, daily occurrence in your life. Argument Hacks will help you follow some guidelines that are not too painful so that you can open lines of communication and grow closer to the person you spend the most time with in the world.
(Free on Kindle on 5/30/63, always free on Kindle Unlimited)

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Grim Knights (The Grim Chronicles Book 1) by D.R. Martin

Grim Knights (The Grim Chronicles Book 1) by D.R. Martin

A magical epic adventure intended for young adult fans of Narnia, Mistmantle, and Redwall, with a touch of Hogwarts meets Band of Brothers. Book one introduces Howl, the boy wizard, on a knight’s quest to save his mountain home from war. Aided by talking animals and elemental magic, he enlists brave allies from the land of men and dwarfs. Together, they find love and friendship, while facing fiery dragons and fighting heroic battles on land, sea, and air. The story is told from various animal perspectives, and presents themes of family, friendship, laughter, and shared struggles in wartime. The book pays tribute to the sacrifice of military families and includes chapter illustrations to celebrate pivotal characters and scenes. Your feedback is always vital to improve the series. All reviews are welcome and appreciated.

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Samba in Switzerland by Paul Yanuziello

Samba in Switzerland by Paul Yanuziello

Samba in Switzerland, written by Paul Yanuziello with illustrations by Joshua Miller, is a story of adventure, fun, fantasy and beauty. In book 3 of the series, Samba the Bernese Mountain Dog and his best friend, Ariela, visit Switzerland and stay in the Ice Hotel. Samba has the adventure of a lifetime. He skis the Swiss countryside and goes up and down the mountains — a fantastic family vacation that only a “Berner” like Samba could dream up. Joshua Miller has created a magical fairy-tale land with
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Operation Storm King

About Operation Storm King:

Operation Storm King is an explosive alternative history about the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. It will take you on a heart-stopping journey, challenging your view of reality.

Historians tell us that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. Operation Storm King tells of a shocking, yet entirely plausible alternative version, an audacious Nazi raid to kidnap FDR from West Point.

Starting in January 1945, “Operation Storm King” follows a small team of Nazi commandos as they penetrate New York Harbor, and sail up the Hudson River in the revolutionary Type XXI U-Boat. Their mission: kidnap the American President and force the United States into an alliance with Germany against Russia. When FDR’s heroic but ultimately suicidal actions foil the plot, Vice-President Truman covers up the kidnapping, and creates the myth of FDR’s peaceful death to prevent public panic.

Seventy-five years later, Mai Zhao, a hard driving woman West Point cadet discovers the shattered U-Boat wreck in the Hudson River, and uncovers its shocking secrets. The U.S. national security apparatus goes on alert. Zhao’s unstoppable efforts to uncover the truth threatens to undermine the American public’s faith in government. Washington mobilizes powerful political and legal forces to stop her.

With fierce battles and sacrifices, action-packed scenes, and well-crafted characters, “Operation Storm King” is a must-read for fans of explosive wartime adventures, gritty historical war fiction, and riveting alternative history epics. For fans of best-selling authors like Philip K. Dick, Robert Harris, or Tom Clancy and those looking for a detailed techno thriller, Operation Storm King is a book you won’t want to put down.

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Modern Monarchy: The Caveman King by Shemar James

Modern Monarchy: The Caveman King by Shemar James

In the era where prehistoric and modern people coexist, darkness infiltrates the Goldleaf Kingdom as it is left vulnerable in the King and Queen’s absence.

Determined to defend their castle, the heirs to the throne and their friends must unite an uneasy alliance between primitive and modern people to combat the power-hungry Caveman King and his vicious army who threaten the safety and dominion of their home.

They soon realize that he is just the beginning of their coming storm of trouble: ruthless giants, tyrannical aliens, and the Caveman King’s vengeful son, Prince Chad, all threaten their refuge.

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Warpath by William H. Brown

About Warpath by William H. Brown:

Warpath is the second book in the Elias James Adventure series by William H. Brown. Elias has many thrilling exploits as his world changes when he enters the Southwest frontier of the Tensaw. His incredible journey, full of unexpected twists and turns, requires him to survive the wilderness that would later become the State of Alabama. Along the way, he is befriended by such historical figures as Samuel Dale, Sam Houston, Davey Crockett, General John Coffee, and Major General Andrew Jackson. Immediately before the Creek Indian War in 1813-1814, tensions between the Red Stick faction of the Creek Indians and American settlers on the frontier reached a boiling point. Elias navigates battles, politics, and loyalties as he scouts the Southwestern frontier, spies against the Spanish and English, and fights for the cause he believes in.

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Death of a Lie

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DEATH OF A LIE
1944, and a Lend-Lease B-25 with its Soviet aircrew falls from the sky above Timişoara, Romania. Andrei Bălcescu, while camping out that night on his father’s smallholding, finds a battered folder amidst the plane’s wreckage.

Fifty years later, Andrei’s adopted son, Lucian, rediscovers the folder and its eight pages of encrypted material in a garden shed. He visits a childhood friend, who makes a start on cracking the code. Barely a week later, Lucian suspects he is being followed by persons unknown.

Present day, and Lucian’s daughter, Shani Bălcescu, a promising Oxford academic, continues to search for information on her family. When she receives a text from an individual claiming to have known her parents, curiosity takes her to Timişoara, where she soon regrets her impulsive nature. Witness to the aftermath of a vicious murder, and hearing that both Oxford and her home city of Prague have been ‘visited’, Shani knows that to leave Romania would prove fatal without first piecing together her father’s movements days before she was born.

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Evil Cast: Volume 1

About Evil Cast: Volume 1:

Evil Cast is a love letter to horror, its conventions, and its fans. Think Evil Dead meets Scooby Doo. Created by writer, podcaster, and horror super-fan Kyle Stück (The Night Shift, Humming Fools) and illustrated by Enrico Orlandi, creator of Dark Horse’s The Flower of the Witch, this comic bathed in blood and self-awareness follows fictional versions of Kyle and his longtime collaborator Noah Baslé (Ominous Media) as they find themselves caught up in a horror adventure filled with all the monsters and evil they previously thought to just be stories.

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The Girl I Left Behind Me

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A war in a distant land. Two men from the same streets. One of them will die.

Lofty Lofthouse is going back to Afghanistan, but this time he must face his greatest enemy, himself. In a war there are always two sides and it isn’t always clear which is the right one. Then a drone strike kills a family and makes the decision clear.

When two young men from the same streets find themselves on the opposite sides of the conflict, only one of them can make it home. One of them will be responsible for the other dying.

Will it be Lofty, or will it be Youssef who lives to return to London?

The Girl I Left Behind me is the intriguing story of two young men at war. If you like drama and action then you’ll love Robert Cubitt’s fascinating adventure.

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Churchill’s Rogue

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1937. Irishman, Sean Ryan is asked by a former adversary, Winston Churchill, to save a woman and son hunted by an elite SS unit. Ryan agrees – but on his terms. Thus begins the epic, award-winning thriller, as Ryan fights alongside the infamous Rogues, led by a lethal, battle-hardened woman called Lenka, who are helping Jewish families flee the Nazis.

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The Northern Wolf Series: Books 1-5 by Daniel Greene

The Northern Wolf Series: Books 1-5 by Daniel Greene

The complete Northern Wolf series all in one boxset. Over 1500 pages of award-winning military historical fiction. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Ralph Peters, Michael Shaara, Griff Hosker, and Matthew Harffy.

A broken man will be forged in the flames of war.

Johannes Wolf. Immigrant. Soldier. Unlikely Hero — Wolf’s company are the kind of men that get the dirty work done needed to win the war that divided America. Ride through the American Civil War with Wolf’s motley crew of daring Union raiders, and enjoy fast-paced, non-stop war fiction at the pointy end of a saber!

Northern Wolf – A maimed young man with no prospects swindles his way into the Army of the Potomac, and along with a host of green recruits is placed into the Michigan Cavalry Brigade. Riding for Gettysburg, they find themselves holding the rear of the Union line and face to face with JEB Stuart and his Invincibles.

Northern Hunt – Johannes Wolf has made a crucial mistake. He’s volunteered for a secret raid, dragging along with him, his unit of misfits. They fall under the command of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren and set out on a quest for redemption and vengeance that will strike at the head of the Southern Cause.

Northern Blood – In the Spring of 1864, a daring raid is devised to draw the Confederate cavalry into a winner-take-all showdown. The Union needs a group of soldiers just brazen enough to do it or die trying. Libby Prison’s most recent escapee, Johannes Wolf, and his unit of misfits, might just be the ones to get the job done – if Red Shirts don’t kill them first.

Northern Dawn – Promoted, Wolf finds himself in the hot seat of the largest all-cavalry battle of the war near Trevilian Station. Isolated and surrounded can they survive the coming Southern storm? Or will they be overrun and annihilated, a mere footnote in history?

Northern Shadows – With the surrender of Robert E. Lee,Wolf’s war isn’t over. Diehard rebels still operate in the field, led by the secret organization the Knights of the Golden Circle. Their plot? Kill the president and let the war rage on. Wolf and his men rush to Washington, D.C., to meet the enemy head-on. But these enemies do not march and fight as armies do; they lurk in the shadows waiting to strike.

Praise for the Northern Wolf series –

“Greene has set the bar impossibly high — no one writes about the American Civil war the way he does.” – Coffee Pot Book Club Review

“Overall, I would highly recommend Northern Blood to fans of atmospheric and immersive Civil War fiction, likable characters with fantastic dialogue, and for historical military novel enthusiasts everywhere.” – Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review

“The pacing is perfect. The action scenes are tense. You are on the edge of your seat over and over.” – N.N. Light’s Book Heaven

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Operation Absolom

About Operation Absolom:

There’s an old saying in the Army, ‘Never volunteer for anything’. It has been said many times, so why on Earth did Steven Carter ignore it?

After volunteering for the Army Commandos, Carter finds himself cut off in enemy occupied Norway. It’s winter, it’s cold and the enemy are hunting for him. Can he survive against all these odds? Even if the Germans don’t capture him, can he find a way back to England?

This novel is based on several true life events. It tells a story of superhuman courage, daring and defiance. If you want to read about people who would sacrifice themselves so that others can sleep safe at night, Operation Absolom, is the book for you.

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The Legend Is Born by Gerald R Knight

The Legend Is Born by Gerald R Knight

This faraway, pre-contact Pacific story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is Wōtto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Ḷainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction.
Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Naṃdik, a wet atoll in the southern rain belt of the Rālik Chain. As Ḷainjin’s surrogate mother, she will sail with the infant by outrigger canoe in the company of his maternal grandfathers. These kind men had recently helped the Wōtto Islanders overcome the terrible drought that typically follows a typhoon. With the trade-wind season approaching, it’s soon time to complete their voyage. The grandfathers begin teaching Helkena the traditional navigational arts along the way.
Her goal is to get her tattoos on Naṃdik and, in time, to find a man there to take home to Wōtto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren desert island?
Far from being a simple story, this colorful, romantic tale presents a surprising background to the lovemaking culture of the Marshall Islands. It also reveals the early years of young Ḷainjin, the hero of the Legends of Ḷainjin historical literary fiction series

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The Girl I Left Behind Me

About The Girl I Left Behind Me:

A war in a distant land. Two men from the same streets. One of them will die.

Lofty Lofthouse is going back to Afghanistan, but this time he must face his greatest enemy, himself. In a war there are always two sides and it isn’t always clear which is the right one. Then a drone strike kills a family and makes the decision clear.

When two young men from the same streets find themselves on the opposite sides of the conflict, only one of them can make it home. One of them will be responsible for the other dying.

Will it be Lofty, or will it be Youssef who lives to return to London?

The Girl I Left Behind me is the intriguing story of two young men at war. If you like drama and action then you’ll love Robert Cubitt’s fascinating adventure.

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